Just the Artifacts, Ma’am

And here I am again begging for even more feedback! We’ve gotten a lot feedback on the lastthreequestions, and again we appreciate it muchly! But now we’re asking for artifacts. Comment below and give us an artifact! We don’t care if it’s brown, silver, multicolored, creature or bauble, just tell us why you picked it. I think you know the drill by now.

Again, no repeats and nothing from Unglued or Unhinged (sorry Chaos Confetti fans) are allowed, but whatever else is fair game. We’ve really loved all the picks and explanations from the other questions, so we can’t wait to see what you guys come up with!

In all truth trusty machete is one of the memorable artifacts for me beccause it was the first equipment I tried to pair with stoneforge mystic before any of the swords came out. Even though it is not as good as bonesplitter it is still a decent card.

Stuffy Doll. It’s the portrait of a creature that has taken abuse far beyond what could be expected by any reasonable creature, yet it continues to hurt itself, if only to spite your enemies. Make it a pariah and it will still struggle onwards through the pain. Make it realize how guilty its conscience is and it will cause instant death. The chuckles it elicits from your enemies soon fade as it raises its Valor punishes them for their audacity in trying to alpha strike you. Even after all crumbles to dust, there it stands, daring someone to come mess with it. It is the greatest artifact ever.
tl;dr: I have a massive hard-on for Stuffy Doll.

Skullclamp. It’s so good for costing so little, and makes token decks (in either EDH or in 60-card) absolutely awesome engines of card draw. Sure it can be busted, but in controlled doses, the high you get off of it is awesome (I promise I’m not high).

It is no secret that I am a fan of huge blocks of text on old cards, I love the blank looks people give me when I play certain cards, and as giant walls of text that scream kill me go, Ice Cauldron is the best. It’s also not a bad card to boot either, especially in EDH with some of the more ridiculously costed cards, you can play them a couple of turns early. I have also used this to protect cards in my hand from targeted discard. The card really is rather good and people that have played with me again and again, still have to ask me what it does.

On a side note look at that art! It has almost no relevance to the card except the fact that there is a cauldron made of ice in the art, however this doesn’t make the witch dangling the rat over said cauldron any less bad-ass

I love this card. It is so versatile, as it allows you to continually replay and instant that costs 2 or less. I tend to use it to allow me to replay instants that “define” my deck (e.g. False Cure or Fling), but it can do so much more. You can be a total jerk and put an Orim’s Chant or Counterspell on the sceptor. You could also put a split card on and pay only 2 mana for either half at instant speed. I would say a reusable instant speed Research//Development (I suggest casting the Development half) is pretty good.

Couldn’t think of that many artifacts off the top of my head that I played a lot. A year or so ago I was using Goblin Guide to note down cards my opponents were going to draw, and then naming them with Pithing Needle before they played them. A handy way to deal with Planeswalkers for mono-red without using up burn spells and attack phases

worry not! i have a semblance anvil deck that is captain’d by Grand architect and has all the artifact goodies that you can play for litte (or most of the time no)mana A 4 mana wurmcoil engine on turn 3…..or sooner

First of all, I can say the word ‘booby’ and it is not something that has me taken to Human Resources immediately. I do have trouble not snickering when I say it, though.

I built a Booby (heh) Trap deck when Tempest was Standard legal and man, what a hoot. I had lots of ways to peek at your deck or put cards on top of it. It was always cool to play Booby (heh) Trap and then name a card I knew you had at least 4 of in your deck and then just wait it out. Fun times! Now, with Copy Artifact AND Phyrexian Metamorph, I could probably play LOTS of Boobies…er…umm.. Booby Traps.

Prophetic Prism. It’s such an awesome little utility artifact for so many decks – color fixing and card draw in one reasonably-priced package. It’s not winning the game for you or anything, but it’s fantastic function for its price.

Locket of Yesterdays, because when I first started it was my first build idea, but I was never able to make it work. I wonder if it was because I never really got more than two or three of the same card.